On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:11:30AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > But that's not true. The practical consequences are many: Debian ceases > supporting every non-free package, non-free maintainers have to setup their > own archives, contrib becomes at best much harder to support well and at > worst unsupported. It would affect my contrib package (xtrs) not a whit. At the same time, I have no problem maintaining xtrs outside of the Debian Project if that is the will of the developers. > Consider that many people outside the project consider non-free software > to be important, The goal of the Debian project is not to do everything that is important. The goals of the Debian Project are "Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software", "We Will Give Back to the Free Software Community", "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software", and "Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards". Well, not all of those are stated as goals, and the last one isn't even a sentence -- which should tell us something, but apparently doesn't. > and that Debian's balanced stance on the matter -- make > the distinction clear, but don't be otherwise prejudiced about them -- Of course we're "prejudiced" about them. We uphold and promote Free Software, and made a contract with the Free Software community. We made no contract with the "Non-Free Software Community", if such a thing even exists. We value Free Software more highly than the alternative, and we always have -- and not just because it's easier to work with. -- G. Branden Robinson | It's like I have a shotgun in my Debian GNU/Linux | mouth, I've got my finger on the branden@debian.org | trigger, and I like the taste of http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | the gunmetal. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
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